UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9149

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9149

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9149.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9149

Upstream

CVE-2017-9149

Published

2017-05-22T19:29:00Z

Modified

2025-10-24T04:46:19Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Ubuntu - medium

Summary

[none]

Details

Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT) 0.6 and 0.6.1 silently fails to perform "Clean metadata" actions upon invocation from the Nautilus contextual menu, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a file for which cleaning had been attempted.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / mat

Package

Name: mat
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/mat@0.6.1-2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.5.4-1

0.6.1-1

0.6.1-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "mat",
            "binary_version": "0.6.1-2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9149.json"